Product Description: Each volume in this timely series provides essential information on a disease or disorder (including symptoms, causes, treatments and cures); presents the controversies surrounding causes, alternative treatments, and other issues; and offers first-person narratives from people coping with the disease -- either as patients, family members or caregivers. Essays are carefully edited and introduced to make them easily accessible to student researchers as well as general readers.

Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Understanding Fetal Alcohol Syndrome -- 1: Overview of Fetal Alcohol syndrome / Laurie Heron Seaver, Teresa G. Odle, and Tish Davidson -- 2: Genes may determine sensitivity to maternal alcohol exposure / Science Daily -- 3: Certain B vitamin may prevent FAS / PLoS medicine -- 4: Adults with FAS face challenges / Tom Robertson -- 5: People with Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder face difficulties in the U S justice system /Bruce Gage -- Chapter 2: Controversies surrounding Fetal Alcohol Syndrome -- 1: There is no safe amount of drinking for pregnant women / Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders study group -- 2: Small amounts of alcohol are probably safe for pregnant women / John C Hobbins -- 3: Women need to hear that FAS is completely preventable / Richard H Carmona -- 4: Saying that FAS is completely preventable is misleading / Gideon Koren -- 5: FAS prevention should focus on stopping fetal exposure to alcohol / Mark B. Mengel, H Russell Searight, and Keely Cook -- 6: FAS prevention should focus on helping alcohol-abusing women / Janet Golden -- 7: Civil commitment laws for pregnant drinkers are designed to protect fetuses / Alcohol policy information system -- 8: Civil commitment laws for pregnant drinkers are problematic / Erin N Linder -- Chapter 3: Personal experiences with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome -- 1: Regretful mother / Lorrie Hundal and Marcie Good -- 2: Adopting a child with FAS / Eva Carner -- 3: How FAS affects me / David -- 4: Adult silenced by FAS / Megan Holland -- Glossary -- Chronology -- Organizations to contact -- For further reading -- Index.